'Few people understand Grammar like Craig Shrives. Best of all, no one explains it so well and so easily.' - Chief Executive of Crimestoppers and former Director of the Intelligence Corps, Mark Hallas OBE
Written by a former British Army officer (also the founder of the popular website Grammar Monster), Smashing Grammar is both a go-to grammar guide and a primer for writing clear English.
Smashing Grammar is divided into three sections: A-Z of Punctuation, A-Z of Grammar Essentials and A-Z of Easily Confused Words. Every entry starts with a simple explanation and some basic examples. These are followed by real-life, engaging examples, which have been painstakingly hunted down for their ability to illustrate the point.
Every entry concludes with a 'Why Should I Care?' section offering great tips and advice and explaining why the grammar point matters to a writer. Imbued with 'barrack room' humour, the writing itself is entertaining and often laugh-out-loud funny, with thousands of sample quotations ranging from Groucho Marx and Homer the Simpson to Karl Marx and Homer the Greek.
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Höhe: 200 mm
Breite: 128 mm
Dicke: 24 mm
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978-0-85783-588-8 (9780857835888)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Craig Shrives is a former through-the-ranks officer from the British Army Intelligence Corps. Over a 25-year military career, he has served a raft of British and American generals, who have whipped his grammar into shape. A former soldier, Craig explains grammar in an entertaining and vocational way, focussing on what you need to know and why you need to know it. He is the founder of www.grammar-monster.com, a top-ranking grammar reference site, which was established in 1999 and now receives over 500,000 visitors a month.
